Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angina pectoris: that the bad actors in angina are the adrenal glands. The adrenals, which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of stress. When certain sensitive individuals overwork, or get an emotional shock, their adrenals speed up to feverish pitch. The excess adrenalin tightens the arteries leading from lungs to heart, deprives the heart of oxygen just when it is most needed. Such temporary smothering. Dr. Raab believes, produces the stabbing spasms of angina...
...sure, many captains elect have been so deeply impressed with the honor and the responsibility which their selection as captain carried that they have grown in moral stature under this added responsibility. They have developed inspirational qualities of leadership far in excess of what had been expected of them...
Across Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, he spoke on, hoarsely, doggedly from his book of indictments, spoke on across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota. He charged the President with dilatory tactics which had retarded the defense program, pointed specifically to the long delayed Excess Profits Tax Bill, the slow, uncoordinated production of airplanes...
...under the preceding quarter but up 39% from the export-inflated September quarter of 1939. Besides higher profits, most reports showed three main trends: 1) sales at a new 1940 high, 2) increased backlogs, presaging still higher sales, 3) increased costs, especially taxes and excess-profits-tax reserves...
...Most startling example was the contrasting cases of U. S. Steel, a leading defense beneficiary, and Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., cigaretmakers, who are likely to get little benefit from a defense boom. Having had three very poor years in 1936, 1938 and 1939, Big Steel will undoubtedly figure its excess profits by return on its capital. By this method, it can earn up to some $112,000,000 over and above its normal tax before paying on any excess at all (Big Steel's 1939 net income before taxes: $54,095,000). Philip Morris, on the other hand, earns...